A 45-day period will forever be known as a “Truss” for Liz Truss ’s tenure before resigning as British prime minister, much as 11 days is a “Mooch” for Anthony Scaramucci ’s short stint in the Trump administration.
Come to think of it, a “Biden” is 208 days, the time from Inauguration Day until the fall of Kabul after the Afghanistan scram in August 2021.
President Biden has been a bit of a lame duck ever since, and if polls are right, even more so after Tuesday’s elections.
Unknown to many, U.K. pension funds had been hedging against interest rate increases, using derivatives with six or seven times leverage.
As inflation hit 10.1%, interest rates were going up no matter what, which caused funds to dump gilts, or bonds, to pay their margin calls, crushing the currency.